Watching the World Cup and the NBA finals at the same time. This is historic. I’m struggling to hold back the tears. I’ve waited my whole life for this.
If Nuno has anything about him he’d stay at West Ham. We can’t normalise managers just fucking off into the moonlight after coaching a team for the majority of their relegation campaign.
Oh no! He’ll have to run as a left wing candidate with a sensible border policy, which is what everyone really wants anyway.
Judge him on his economic policy.
Andy Burnham's big plan up until recently was to run the country as a left-wing populist - a toned-down version of Jeremy Corbyn, or 'Diet Corbyn' as you could call it.
Had he been allowed to contest the Gorton and Denton by-election, that would have been easy given its 'vibrant' left-wing demographics. But with the Labour NEC blocking him, he’s now having to contest Makerfield, a Reform-adjacent, Blue Labour seat.
This means the 'King of the North' can no longer run on that original platform; he has to adopt a more socially conservative approach to national sovereignty, law and order, and immigration just to hold the seat, explaining his recent U-turns.
The irony of this is hilarious. Burnham was chomping at the bit to lead Britain to the left of Starmer, but the NEC’s shenanigans and his now-adopted political home of Makerfield have made that very difficult. So he is now reinventing himself all over again, for the umpteenth time.
Whether he genuinely pivots or ultimately betrays those voters, it’s one of the most fascinating strategic binds in recent British politics.
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